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Home - Artworks - Paintings. There are very few people who came and will ever come close to the talent of Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci — , better known simply as Leonardo da Vinci. Together with his contemporaries Michelangelo check his best work here and Raphael he formed a trio of extremely talented artists who remarkably lived together in the same area and during the same period of history.

Therefore, only about 36 paintings have been attributed to him. Some are not universally accepted as well. The Baptism of Christ was painted when da Vinci was an apprentice in the studio of painter Andrea del Verrocchio. This painting was painted by Andrea del Verrocchio , but Leonardo da Vinci had a great contribution to it as well. Historians believe that both the angel to the left of Jesus and the landscape in the background was painted by a young Leonardo.

There are a few drawings of the painting as well which can be found in the British Museum in London , and the original was considered to be lost for many centuries. The Madonna of the Yarnwinder shows the Virgin Mary sitting with her child in a landscape and who looks at a yarnwinder used to collect spun yarn. It has been recorded that Leonardo da Vinci was working on the painting back in , and underdrawings were found with the same changes made to the painting as well.

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The official title of the painting, which has been used since the seventeenth century describes the sitter as the wife or daughter of an ironmonger a ferronnier. The Virgin and Child with St. The painting was, however, never delivered to the commissioner. The painting depicts the Virgin Mary, the baby Jesus, the archangel Uriel, and John the Baptists, in a rocky setting , which is the reason the painting is named the way it is.

It depicts his mistress by the name of Cecilia Gallerani.